Korea

Korea is a peninsula in East Asia, located along the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea in the Pacific Ocean. Korea has been divided since 1945, when the Soviet Union set up the Stalinist North Korea as a puppet state and when the United States set up South Korea as a capitalist dictatorship. The peninsula has an area of 84,610 square miles, and it is home to 76,497,881 people, most of them in the larger south.